This is a manifold tale of love and adolescence which embraces the age of innocence and shows us the ultimate personal sacrifice. The author immerses herself in the character of her heroine, Kimya, and begins to experience all that she felt growing up in the harem of one of the most notable men of the time in that region. We are introduced to all her thoughts as she succumbs to the restrictions in a house where trips to the hammam (public baths) become the highlight of her life; a life where occasional, covert trips to the rooftop fan excitement because they are the only times when she can glimpse the world outside her home full of women. For Rumi, religion was mostly a personal experience, but the members of his harem as well as his family and school of clerics could not escape the beliefs of the time which dictated a certain way of life for religious, scholarly men and the women who inhabited their harems. At the time, Rumi s new school of thought brought a great deal of tumult to both his harem, his family and his school and saw him discredited by the wider community in the early days of his enlightenment.